(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani has condemned the murder of far-right French activist Quentin Deranque in the French city of Lyon last week by suspected radical left militants, calling the killing “a serious matter than concerns us all”.
“The killing of a young French activist, largely in a university setting, is a serious matter that concerns us all, an episode that must be condemned without hesitation,” Tajani wrote on X.
“A murder that knows no borders, a warning to those who use hatred and violence, to those who insult and profess offensive language,” the post continued.
“Politics is above all dialogue and confrontation, even with those who do not think in the same way as we do,” Tajani concluded.
Deranque, 23, suffered a fatal brain injury when he was beaten and kicked during a protest last Thursday on the sidelines of a conference held by Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament for hard-left party France Unbowed (LFI).
Police have so far arrested 11 people over Deranques, including two aides to hard-left party France Unbowed (LFI).
The French government has called for the LFI to suspend one of its MPs, Raphael Arnaut from its parliamentary group due to his links to Anti-Fascist Young Guard, which has been blamed for the violence during a protest a short distance from Sciences Po University in Lyon, in which Deranque was killed.
Videos captured from the scene show three people lying on the ground coming under attack from a larger group, all of them wearing hoods.
Giorgia Meloni described the attack as deeply shocking and “a wound for the whole of Europe”.
